Controllis launches new range of super-fast "Swiss army knife" controllers

UK based power and control system company Controllis has launched a new range of high performance remote system controllers that combine ARM, PIC and FPGA processors on one platform with built-in LTE modem and ultra dense GPIO. “Our new controller has been designed from the ground up to combine a very high local processing capability with very low DC power consumption” said Controllis VP of Hardware Lance Davidson.  “Because of the marketing requirements of compact footprint, we have utilised a large number of components more typically found in handsets.

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LG Reveals New AIO PC With 29-inch UltraWide Display

 . The IPS 21:9 UltraWide All-In-One PC (model V960) features a 29-inch 2560 x 1080 monitor and comes with a TV Tuner, an NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M GPU and will run on Windows 8. The AIO PC will come in three different models: 29EA73, 29EB73 and 29MA73. The 29EA73 will make full use of its TV Tuner as users can use the computer's Extra View mode, which allows a portion of the screen to be used to access a TV schedule or an additional application while your watching your stories.

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PS3, PS Vita Can Now Purchase Digital Goods Using Mobile Billing

Sony rolled out an update to its PlayStation Store, or rather, its Sony Entertainment Network that allows patrons to purchase their digital goods through PayPal in addition to the standard method of using a credit card or prepaid card. We assume Sony didn't think three payment options were good enough when it comes to all of the digital goods they have for sale every day, which is probably why the company has rolled out an additional payment method which would use your mobile phone account in order to make a payment.

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LEGO And Belkin Team Up For iPhone 5 Case

Back in the day before smartphones and tablets, kids used to play with LEGO to the point where even in our late twenties and early thirties, playing with LEGO is still an enjoyable past time. Well if you have some loose LEGO pieces lying around, LEGO and Belkin have announced a partnership in which the toy maker and case manufacturer have created an official LEGO iPhone 5 case. Given that this is an official LEGO product, it means that it will be compatible with other LEGO pieces you might have lying around the house, thus allowing you to customize your iPhone 5 casing in a rather unique way.

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Kia Track'ster still on table, Soul turbo possible

The Soul is a massive success – no news there. In the main, the Soul is a massive success – no news there – with Kia officials telling us that the US is gobbling up 80 to 90 percent of production coming out of the company's Gwangju plant. Counterintuitively, it's doing so well that its demand is actually hurting the viability of potential spinoff models like the 2012 Track'ster concept shown above, along with other variants. The issue is production capacity – or rather a lack thereof.

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Facebook Spammers Running A $200 Million Business [Research]

Its actually not that hard to spot spammers on the world's biggest social network. Most of them operate through Facebook Pages, by posting links to direct traffic to third party scam websites. A team of security researchers based in Italy have investigated hundreds of thousands of posts on Facebook to conclude that spamming has become a business that pays north of $200 million annually. Facebook has over a billion users, many of them like dozens of Pages each day, Pages that resonate with their likes and interests. Spammers set up fake Pages, build following and start directing those fans to scam websites.

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Coghlan's All-Weather Wallet keeps your cards and cash dry

My father fished.  Watching him fish wasn't like watching the beautiful fishing scenes in A River Runs Through It.  My dad was at war with the fish, and he didn't need any fancy waders to protect himself from the water.  He'd be in up to his chest without any regards for what he had in his pockets, and the contents of his wallet always suffered for it.  If he'd had one of these waterproof All-Weather Wallets from Coghlan's, he probably wouldn't have spent so much time having to separate and dry the contents of his wallet.

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BBM for Android gets a sign-up page

Blackberry originally promised us that their Android and iOS messaging apps — affectionately known as Blackberry Messenger or BBM — would be coming to us by the end of summer. By our Gregorian calendar, summer ends September 21st, and we're quickly approaching that date. With that, it's natural that we start seeing and hearing more and more about the arrival of the premium chat service. Samsung has oddly been the biggest megaphone for hype, with the company curiously hyping the service up in South Africa as it will eventually launch in their apps store.

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2014 Porsche Cayman S

Second Fiddle Moves To First Chair. In the interest of full disclosure and a bit of bloodletting, allow me to admit that while I've always coveted the Porsche Boxster and its hard-hatted Cayman cousin, I've never really warmed to them visually. They've always had a certain push-me, pull-you, can't-decide-which-way-they're-going aesthetic that I've never really wrapped my head around. Porsche achieved the same thing with the original 550 Spyder's overturned bathtub bodyshell that would come to inspire the Boxster, but somehow that classic's even more symmetrical nature works for me.










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Thunderhead.com solution voted Best New Product of the Year by global peers at the 2013 International Business Awards

Thunderhead.com’s Cloud-based ONE solution snatches gong for pioneering capabilities in the customer engagement spaceLONDON – August 29, 2013 – Thunderhead.com, a leader  in enterprise solutions for customer experience and customer engagement, today announced a Stevie Award win, in the Best New Product of the Year category, for its ONE Correspond for Salesforce Version 2.0 solution, part of the companies ONE Engagement platform.The application, which is tightly integrated with Salesforce, offers users a seamless experience to create sales and service communications which are tailored and on-brand all wit

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DARPA Warrior Web Suit Project

Soldiers are extremely tough people, but even then, they are more susceptible to load-related injuries whenever they are on the field compared to us ordinary folk simply for the fact that these brave men and women tend to walk across for long distances with over 100 pounds of additional weight on their backs because of the gear that they need to carry – which further increases the potential for both injury and exhaustion is great. DARPA hopes to reverse that with the Warrior Web suit project, where it will carry the intention of lightening the load.

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HTC One Max Fingerprint Sensor Rumored Again

Earlier this year we heard rumors that HTC had a phablet up its sleeve. The company has teased it a couple of times, but an official announcement is yet to be made. It is expected that HTC will launch the device next month. There have been many rumors about the phablet's specifications, we've heard chatter that it might come with a fingerprint sensor as well. New pictures of an allegedly leaked HTC One Max reveal what is said to be a fingerprint sensor on the back, underneath the camera.

We saw similar pictures last month, which showed off a fingerprint sensor on the back.

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SMI Eye Tracking Glasses 2.0 Launched

The SMI Eye Tracking Glasses has just received an update, which will aptly be introduced as the SMI Eye Tracking Glasses 2.0. This particular design update will see a slimmer form factor, delivering an instant setup, 60Hz eye-tracking performance and a smartphone-based recorder, which happens to be a customized Samsung Galaxy S4 at this point in time. Although it does not look all that geeky, it will also ensure that the new electronics parts within and without deliver a far smoother tracking and shorter gaze time perception, at least that is what SMI shared.

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Steria enables first fully-operational Payment Factory Worldwide

Paris, August 28, 2013 – As end users become an increasingly important source of revenue growth for the banking sector, competition in this market segment is hotting up. Banks are looking to acquire systems that enable unprecedented time to market, as well as bringing down transaction costs. To address this challenge, La Banque Postale and Société Générale have set up Transactis, a shared payment factory that relies heavily on leveraging Steria’s Stecard solution.

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Moto X Allegedly Costs $221 To Build

Consumers always want the best value for money in all the purchases that they make, no doubt about it. The thing about purchasing a smartphone on contract is this – you pay a whole lot less compared to an unlocked device, but the mobile carrier would make the money back on the smartphone through your 2-year contract, and hopefully, that you would spend plenty of time chalking up your talk minutes and data usage throughout the 24 month window period. Having said that, the recently unveiled Moto X from Motorola has been torn down, with the estimated cost of manufacturing for a single unit standing at slightly more than $200 a pop.

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Phablet, Bitcoin, Twerk And More Added To Oxford Dictionaries

We've seen a number of “popular” words become part of our history books once the Oxford dictionary adds them to their dictionaries. It looks like that time is upon us once again as the Oxford Dictionaries has added a number of recently popular words, many of them have been upgraded from their slang-term origins. Some words, such as phablet, BYOD (bring your own device) and bitcoin are all words that we've come to know very well over the past few years, and have considered them to be a part of our vocabulary already.

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How this Ferrari 250 GTE became Rome's most famous police car

We're used to seeing fancy cars gifted to or bought by certain international police forces today, but the story of this 1962 Ferrari 250 GTE goes well beyond a gift. Because Rome's anti-organized-crime unit, Squadra Mobile, was doing a terrific job in the early '60s, the Italian president asked what they wanted as a token of appreciation. The answer, meant as a joke, was "A Ferrari." The president, in all seriousness, got them two. One was almost immediately destroyed during testing, the other remains in the care of Alberto Capelli today, whose father began attending military and government auctions just after World War II.

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Opel reveals updated Insignia OPC sans power boost

We've got good news, friends, and we've got bad news. The good news is that Opel has revealed the new Insignia OPC that we spied recently on the street. The bad news is that it does not have the hike in power we were hoping for. The new Insignia OPC, pictured here in Sports Tourer form, is set to debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show in a couple of weeks. Sitting atop the Opel Performance Center lineup, it's got the same 325-horsepower 2.8-liter twin-turbo V6 and Haldex all-wheel-drive system as the model it replaces, but benefits from some minor enhancements.

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Nissan promising autonomous car production by 2020

Nissan will bring the autonomous car to consumers by the end of this decade. The announcement was made by CEO Carlos Ghosn at the company's US headquarters in Irvine, CA. Nissan has already begun construction of a dedicated proving ground for the self-driving cars in Japan, with completion targeted for the end of 2014. Teaming with MIT, Stanford, Oxford and others, Nissan has already outfitted Leaf EVs with the Autonomous Drive (Nissan's brand name for the tech), a suite of new technologies developed from the brand's existing Safety Shield technology.

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Belkin Ultimate Keyboard Case for iPad review

In the past few months, I have been fortunate enough to be able to test out three different Bluetooth keyboards for my iPad. The first one was a snap on/off keyboard cover for the iPad, the second was a folding keyboard, and the this most recent one is the Ultimate Keyboard Case for the iPad by Belkin. (See the related links for my reviews of the other keyboards.)  Being a case junkie, I have to say I looked forward to this one the most. But did it meet my expectations, or did it fall flat. Let's see.

Installing the case onto my iPad was a breeze. It snaps on easily and stays firmly in place.









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Motor Recall app makes game out of identifying vehicle lights at night

What will they think of next. This is an app called Motor Recall, and if you're at all like us, it's pretty much the equivalent of any nighttime car ride as a kid - see a pair of headlights or taillights, pick out the make, model and if you're lucky/good, the year. Now, the clever folks at Case By Case Studios have turned that time-honored way of surviving a long drive into an app. Loaded with over 250 different headlight and taillight patterns, players have the choice of either matching the headlights with taillights in a game called Match, or out and out guessing which vehicle is being shown, not surprisingly, called Guess.

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Sony Xperia Z1 press image and metal chassis leaks

The Sony Xperia Z1, erstwhile known as 'Honami', has leaked once again, this time through a press image. This latest image shows the device in three colors: black, white and purple. The colors are identical to the ones the Xperia Z is sold in and the device itself looks remarkably similar.
One major difference between the exterior of the Z and the Z1, however, is the metal frame that runs around the device. It's unclear whether the metal acts are merely the frame for the device or also doubles up as the antenna as on the iPhone.

The Xperia Z1 is Sony's upcoming flagship Android smartphone that has been rumored for quite some time now.


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Forza 5 announces Laguna Seca and Spa, details on new physics engine (video)

During Gamescom in Cologne, Germany the Forza Motorsport team showed off another demo of Forza Motorsport 5 and announced two tracks for the game: Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and Spa-Francorchamps. Laguna Seca and its Corkscrew have been in the previous four versions, while Spa and Eau Rouge are making their first intro to marquee Xbox driving game. Turn 10 director Dan Greenawalt said during an interview that the power of the coming Xbox One has permitted new tire modeling, and that Turn 10 worked with internationally eminent tire testing institute CalSpan to upgrade the game's tire science.

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Moto X Now Available On AT&T For As Low As $199

AT&T announced last week it will be making Google and Motorola's first lovechild, the Moto X, available starting on August 23. If you're the kind of person who lives life without needing to look at a calendar, we thought we might give you a heads up that the Moto X is, in fact, now available on AT&T. For AT&T subscribers and those considering jumping onto the AT&T party boat by becoming a subscriber, you'll be able to pick up the 16GB version of the Moto X for $199.99 with two-year agreement, and the 32GB version for $299.99, also with a two-year agreement.

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Apple Acquires Public Transit App Developer, Embark

Apple has been making a number of improvements to its Maps iOS application, but ultimately, the service has yet to become as popular as competing services, such as Google Maps. Misinformation and inaccuracies seem to be some of the big issues plaguing Apple's Maps, but if you're someone who relies on public transportation, the service has been completely useless to you up until this point. That is until Apple acquired Embark, who just so happens to have developed a public transit application in the past.

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New Windows Phone Ad Highlights The Lumia 1020's Camera Abilities

When it comes to advertising their products, Microsoft has never been shy in comparing themselves against the competition, highlighting some of the disadvantages and flaws of their competitors' products. Well a new advertisement has been released Microsoft where they basically show off the Nokia Lumia 1020's camera abilities. Of course the "enemies" of the ad are the iOS and Android users where they are busy fighting with each other trying to capture the best photo, and there are even a couple of people in the audiences using the iPad to snap photos which is something of a faux pas.

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Amazon Tests Out Own Wireless Network, Says Bloomberg

According to Bloomberg, the folks over at Amazon are currently testing out a new wireless network which would enable their customers to stay connected to the Internet. This new wireless network undergone testing in Cupertino, California, where it made use of spectrum that were controlled by satellite communications company Globalstar Inc., and this particular test was performed in a hush-hush manner simply because it was a private affair. This just goes to show how Amazon, right now the world's largest e-commerce company, is about to make a move beyond being just a Web destination and hardware manufacturer.

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Delta Air Lines Places 19,000 Order For Windows Phone-Powered Nokias From AT&T

Now this bit of news is definitely going to make fans of the Windows Phone platform to whoop with joy – as Delta Air Lines has gone ahead to sign a multi-year extensive agreement with AT&T when it comes to the carrier's custom mobility services, devices and support for Delta's new, in-flight mobile point-of-sale application.

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Sonic Lost World Deadly Six Edition Receives Nights-Inspired DLC

For those of you out there who has more than enough faith in the upcoming Sonic title for the Nintendo Wii U platform and has placed a pre-order for Sonic Lost World for Wii U will be greeted by a nice surprise – that you will be on the receiving end of an exclusive level and boss battles against huge, gargantuan monsters that were inspired by another Sonic Team game, namely the Sega Saturn classic known as "Nights into Dreams". I haven't played the latter before despite seeing ads of it in my comics back in the day, but if the graphics shown above are anything to go by, it is certainly a colorful affair.

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Canon PowerShot SX510 HS Superzoom Digital Camera

Canon has just added a new superzoom digital camera to its line-up, the PowerShot SX510 HS. This travel-friendly camera sports a 12.1MP 1x2.3″ High-Sensitivity CMOS image sensor, a 24mm wide-angle lens, a 30x optical zoom lens, a 3.0-inch 461K-dot LCD monitor, Canon DIGIC 4 Image Processor, WiFi connectivity, an HDMI port and 1080p Full HD video recording at 24fps. The PowerShot SX510 HS will be available from September for $249.99.

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BBM iOS And Android User Guides Leaked

Earlier this year BlackBerry announced that it is finally opening up BlackBerry Messenger to other platforms, iOS and Android to be precise. BBM used to be one of the biggest selling points for BlackBerry devices, but now the messaging service has been eclipsed by competitors such as Viber and WhatsApp. Up till now BBM has only been exclusive to the company's own smartphones. Since its smartphones are not performing as well as they used to in the market, perhaps the company will be able to steal a few customers after they get a taste of BBM on the aforementioned platforms.

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Google Glass could be setting up shop at your local Best Buy [RUMOR]

According to well-known technology blogger Robert Scoble, Google has big plans to ensure Glass becomes a mainstream success once it's finally ready for the general public. How will they do this. Well, aside from giving out Glass to celebrities, Google could be setting up shop inside Best Buy retail locations with a specialty Glass sales and fitting areas. In a Google+ post, Scoble talks about a juicy rumor he heard involving Google renting upwards of 6,000 square feet of space inside Best Buy next year to help promote Google Glass (similar to Samsung Experience Shops set up in Best Buy).

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Vine For Android Updated

When Vine was released, it made quite a splash among users of new media, but somehow or rather, there never really was quite the momentum to make it the hottest thing in the Silicon Valley. Still, we have word that Vine has already achieved an interesting milestone of 40 million registered users, but then again it really depends on how you look at a particular statistic before arriving at a conclusion.

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AT&T Samsung Galaxy S III Mini pictured, should be launched soon

HTC's One Mini is not the only mini-smartphone that's coming soon to AT&T. The second largest US carrier is also readying the launch of  Samsung's Galaxy S III Mini (yes, the S III Mini that's been available in some markets since November 2012). An AT&T-bound S III Mini has been unveiled a few hours ago by EVleaks. The date that's visible on the S III's display is August 23. That's also the date when AT&T will start selling the HTC One Mini and the Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 - so maybe the S III Mini will be released then, too.

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Opel Insignia OPC Sports Tourer shows its fresh face ahead of Frankfurt debut

Drive down the Autobahn and there's any number of vehicles likely to pass you, and most of them are produced locally. But if you're wondering how that Opel left you in its dust, look closely (and quickly) enough and you might make out the letters OPC on the back. They stand for Opel Performance Center (the German counterpart to Vauxhall's VXR line) and they adorn performance versions of the Corsa, Astra and Insignia.

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